The Presidency should in general execute duly-passed Congressional laws, even when it's politically inconvenient. My vision for the role of the Presidency is as an enactor of laws, not as a backdoor creator of them. While the Presidency should reserve the write to veto, and has many tools at its disposal such as senior executive nominations, a wide audience, budget initiation and more, I view the executive as an agent of law rather than the main author of it. 

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Whatever your views on taxation, immigration, security, justice, education, health care, the military, foreign affairs and more, the issue is at risk of being a moot point if confidence in public federal institutions continues to degrade. This confidence is a casualty of partisan application of laws in arbitrary manners when it is convenient or inconvenient based on electoral calculations. We get told every four years that things will be different, and yet policy continuity at the federal level is remarkably slow-changing and calcified. I do not take faddish theatrical positions on substantive issues because I understand and acknowledge that the President's job is to in general carry out duly-passed laws. A nonpartisan Presidency, in my view, is better equipped to do this.